Cinder-guard for cars.



PATBNTED JULY 5, 1904.

II. W. HARRISON.

GINDER GUARD FOR CARS.

APRLIGATIOH FILED APR 18. 1903.

N0 MODBL.

UNITED STATES Patented July 5, 1904- PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES WILLIAM HARRISON, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA, ASSlG-NGR OF ONE- HALF TOA. DAWSON, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

ClNDER-GUAFID FOR CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 764,462, dated July 5,1904.

Application filed April 18, 1903- To (LU whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMns WILLIAM HARRI- soN, of 13 Middle street,Atlanta, in the county of Fulton, State of Georgia, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Cinder- G-uards for Cars, ofwhich the following is a complete specification, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to improvements in cinder-guards for cars,particularly postal cars, and has for its object the production of acombination guard and mask, the guard being provided with a glass wallwhich the mask upon the guard is designed to protect.

A device of the same general class to which my invention belongs isshown in United States Letters Patent No. 541,144, issued June 18,

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a sectional view of my devicecomplete, taken upon the line I I of Fig. II and illustrated as attachedto a door-jamb. Fig. II is a front elevation of my device complete, butdetached. Fig. III is an end view illustrating the, cooperation of themask-spring with the door-jamb.

Referring to the numerals on the drawings, 1 indicates a door-jamb (seeFigs. I and II) to which a metallic guard 2 of any suitable or preferredconformation is secured, as by means of the Well-known attaching devices3. The attaching devices are such as permit of the ready installation orremoval of the guard as required, it being necessary in practice totransfer the guard from one door-jamb to another whenever the directionof movement of the car is reversed.

5 indicates the front wall, usually made of glass, which, mounted in theguard 2, eonstitutes the transparent protective member behind which aperson may take observations from a moving car.

One feature of my invention consists in the provision made for mountingthe glass 5 in the guard 2. The same consists of a circumambient flange6 upon the guard2, with which cooperates a similar flange 7 to hold theglass in place. The flange 7 is mounted upon a plate 8, which may beprovided with a stiffen- Serial No. 153,254. (No model.)

ing-flange 9. The plate 8 need not extend entirely around the inner Wallof the guard 2,

but need only be coextensive with the outer wall thereof. Theplate 8 notonly constitutes a eonvenientmeans for securing the glass 5 in place,but it affords a reinforcement for the guard 2, so that it may presentthe requisite firmness and rigidity at points where such qualitiesaredemanded, and that without material increase in the weight of theentire guard, which, as has been already specified, should be readilyportable.

It is necessary to protect the observer behind the guard from seriousinjury which might ensue in consequence of the accidental breaking inservice of the glass 5. For that reason I provide as a glass-protector amask 10, which is preferably made of heavy wire suitably braced andreinforced and of any preferred conformation and configuration. Aparticular description of the mask 10 is unnecessary, because it is wellknown in the art. Suffice it to say that the mask is preferably providedwith a back rod 12, consisting of a straight section of Wire and acurved base-piece 15, united to the rod 12, as by ter minal bends oreyelets 16, formed near the opposite ends'of said rod.

-Heretofore, as above suggested, masks have been employed to protect theglass plate of cind er-guards; but they have been made separate from theguard, thereby necessitating individual attention and manipulationwhenever shifting of position of the guard becomes necessary. Inconsequence the masks are frequently lost, and by such loss in transitthe plate 5 is often left unprotected, resulting not infrequently inserious injury to the observer behind the guard.

By my invention the mask and the guard are combined. I prefer to combinethem by the employment of properly-disposed lugs 17 of suitable length,pivoted, respectively, in coaxial alinement to the opposite ends of theguard 2. For this reason each lug is preferably provided with a terminaleyelet 18, through which one of the bolts 19, which serve to secure theplate 8 to the guard 2, is passed.

Each of the bolts 19 is provided with means for securing it in place,preferably a nut 20 on its inner end. The special function of the plate8 in lending the required firmness and rigidity to the guard 2 is madeapparent when it is considered that it affords a supportingbase for themask 10.

The mask is pivotally united to the guard 2 in order to provide for theswinging back of the mask from in front of the plate 5 in order topermit the cleaning of the face of said plate, which in practicefrequently becomes necessary. The mask is for like reasons preferablyheld yieldingly in front of the plate 5, as by a spring-clip 21, securedto the mask in such a manner as to resiliently engage a memberrelatively fixed with respect to the guard for example, the face of thejamb l, which is obviously fixed with respect to the guard when theguard is in service and the clip is required to perform its function.

The operation of my device being apparent JAMES .WVILLIAM HARRISON.

Witnesses:

F. M. MYERS, F. W. WILSON.

